and have a
lightweight piece of cotton spread over your face. Like a corpse.



Wishful thinking :-((

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from Janet Baraclough contains these words:

Well, that's what bedbugs do. Midges are flying insects and haven't
got the strength to climb inside the bedcovers.

Oh - haven't they? I can report that the midges around the Cairngorms in
1958 had the tenacity to get into a Black's Polar sleeping bag,

Maybe you got inside still wearing midgy outdoor clothes; or forgot
to pull the toggle at the entrance end, to get the famous sealed fit
leaving only your face uncovered :-). I've slept OUT in my BPS in the
Highlands. (no tent). The trick to avoid being eaten alive is to remove
the clothes you were wearing, seal the drawstring, and have a
lightweight piece of cotton spread over your face. Like a corpse.

I never sleep in the clothes I've been wearing during the day - except
while sitting in my chair...

The worst thing that ever shared my BPS, was a frog which got as far
as my legs before I woke up. It was a hot night so I hadn't pulled up
the neck of the bag. At least we both survived. Unlike a sad creature
which once crawled underneath my bag while I slept. I woke refreshed in
the morning to feel a strange lump beneath my bum, which was a fresh
dead rabbit... crushed or suffocated.

I did share my Black's Mountain tent once with an army of (crustacean
variety!) crabs. Staff took about a hundred malad children camping.

Like trying to herd ferrets.

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Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:

I never sleep in the clothes I've been wearing during the day - except
while sitting in my chair...

Your idea of expeditions must be much that of the people who went big
game hunting from the White Highlands - evening dress for dinner :-)

I did share my Black's Mountain tent once with an army of (crustacean
variety!) crabs. Staff took about a hundred malad children camping.

Please explain what "malad children" are, and why they are so
attractive to crustaceans.

Yours,
Truly Baffled,
Cambridge.

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

I did share my Black's Mountain tent once with an army of (crustacean
variety!) crabs. Staff took about a hundred malad children camping.

Please explain what "malad children" are, and why they are so
attractive to crustaceans.

Maladjusted.

They were attracted to the idea of me, getting into my tent (sewn-in
groundsheet, entrance through a tunnel which could be tied up) in the
dark and encountering a small army of shore crabs.

However, from outside the tent I heard them clicking before it got dark,
and relocated them back on the shore.

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In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

I did share my Black's Mountain tent once with an army of (crustacean
variety!) crabs. Staff took about a hundred malad children camping.

Please explain what "malad children" are, and why they are so
attractive to crustaceans.

Maladjusted.

They were attracted to the idea of me, getting into my tent (sewn-in
groundsheet, entrance through a tunnel which could be tied up) in the
dark and encountering a small army of shore crabs.

That strikes me as perfectly well-adjusted behaviour for a group
of children - mine would certainly have tried that to their father!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
In article ,
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote:
The message
from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:

I did share my Black's Mountain tent once with an army of (crustacean
variety!) crabs. Staff took about a hundred malad children camping.

Please explain what "malad children" are, and why they are so
attractive to crustaceans.

Maladjusted.

They were attracted to the idea of me, getting into my tent (sewn-in
groundsheet, entrance through a tunnel which could be tied up) in the
dark and encountering a small army of shore crabs.

That strikes me as perfectly well-adjusted behaviour for a group
of children - mine would certainly have tried that to their father!

Which demonstrates the effectiveness of the school...

Maladjusted people do not normally act in a maladjusted fashion
continuously, but usually, only when placed under some sort of stress.

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